***Whales on Stilts!

by M. T. Anderson

Whales on Stilts! is a hilarious spoof of kids’ old-fashioned
adventure yarns. When Lily goes with her father to work on career day,
she doesn’t expect to discover that he works in a heavily guarded abandoned
warehouse, and his boss is a mad scientist who wants to take over the world.
Her father says they’re just a normal company that makes stilts for whales.

It’s up to Lily and her two adventurous friends to find a way to stop
the whales who are being mind-controlled and equipped with laser eyes and
stilts to take over the land. This book is delightfully silly and
a whole lot of fun.

My teen picked up this book because he liked Feed so much, and he enjoyed it
greatly. Now we both want my eleven-year-old to read it. It plays
on all the clichés of adventure stories, with a thoroughly enjoyable
result.